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Dean’s Newsletter June 16, 2003
Special Commencement Issue
Table of Contents
• Special Newsletter on Commencement
• Faculty Awards
• Address to the Graduates
o Eleanor Suchada Click, Graduate Student
o Feyza Essam Marouf, Medical Student
• Commencement Speaker
o Julie Louise Gerberding, M.D., M.P.H.
• Graduates
During the summer months the Dean’s Newsletter will depart from its every other week schedule
to a more irregular reporting schedule. Regular biweekly issues will resume after Labor Day.
Special Newsletter on Commencement On Saturday, June 14th, the School of Medicine held its celebration and diploma
awarding event on the Dean’s Lawn. The University Commencement Ceremony, was
held on Sunday morning, June 15th. This year, the School presented 29 Master of
Science degrees, 91 Doctor of Philosophy degrees and 74 Doctor of Medicine degrees.
Among these, students received combined degrees, including eleven MD/PhD degrees, two
MD/Master degrees, one PhD/Masters, and one BA/MS.
Please join me in extending our personal congratulations to each and every graduate and
to their parents, families and friends. What a wonderful accomplishment by all.
I would also like to take this opportunity to especially thank Char Hamada, Zera Murphy
and Suzanne Bethard and others in Student Affairs for all of their painstaking efforts that made
this yearís commencement a tremendous success. Also thanks to Sharon Olsen, Lorena Najarro,
Velessa Peairs, Cassandra Sooter, Ann Davis, Kathryn Fitzgerald, Eon Rios, and Justin
Odegaard for helping to set up Saturdayís great event. (Eon and Justin are current medical
students who volunteered their time on Saturday to carry the flags). Working behind the scenes
on Friday to help make the day a success was Eva Vasquez, Robin Casey, Juhn Verano, and
Patricia Perez.
Faculty Awards
In addition to congratulating our students for their accomplishments, commencement is
also a time to honor faculty who have made significant contributions to their education.
Accordingly, I am pleased to list the teaching awards that were announced at the School of
Medicine Commencement.
The Arthur L. Bloomfield Award: In Recognition of Excellence in the Teaching of
Clinical Medicine
Neil Gesundheit, Associate Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology, Gerontology
& Metabolism) and Associate Dean for Medical Education
John Giacomini, Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)
Sherry Wren, Associate Professor of Surgery (General Surgery)
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Award: For Outstanding and Innovative
Contributions to Medical Education
Brian Hoffman, Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology, Gerontology and
Metabolism)
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Award: For Excellence in Preclinical
Teaching
Ben Barres, Professor of Neurobiology and of Developmental Biology and of
Neurology and Neurological Sciences
Gilbert Chu, Professor of Medicine (Oncology) and of Biochemistry
Steven Guest, Adjunct Professor Medicine, Santa Clara Valley
Medical Center
Julie Theriot, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and of Microbiology and
Immunology
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Award: For Excellence in Clinical
Teaching
Myriam Curet, Associate Professor of Surgery (General Surgery)
Neil Gesundheit, Associate Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology, Gerontology
& Metabolism) and Associate Dean for Medical Education
Jose Maldonado, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
The Franklin G. Ebaugh, Jr. Award:For Advising Medical Students
Oscar Salvatierra, Professor of Surgery (Transplantation) and of Pediatrics
(Nephrology)
The Compassion in Medicine Award
Samuel LeBaron, Associate Professor of Medicine (Family and Community
Medicine)
The Alwin C. Rambar-James B.D. Mark Award: For Excellence in Patient Care
Stanley Schrier, Professor of Medicine (Hematology), Emeritus
Stanford University School of Medicine Award for Graduate Teaching
Julie Theriot, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and of Microbiology and
Immunology
Stanford University School of Medicine Award for Outstanding Service to Graduate
Students
William Newsome, Professor of Neurobiology
Congratulations to all.
Address to the Graduates
One of the traditions of the School of Medicine Commencement is a presentation by an
elected member of the Graduate and Medical Student graduating class. This year, Eleanor
Suchada Click or the 2003 Graduation class in Genetics (Ellie is also receiving her M.D. today),
and Feyza Essam Marouf of the 2003 graduating class in Medicine, spoke to the graduates and
guests. They each gave compelling and inspiring remarks.
2003 Commencement Speaker Julie Louise Gerberding, M.D., M.P.H.
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
We were also privileged this year to have Dr. Julie Gerberding as our 2003
Commencement Speaker. Dr. Gerberding addressed the importance of a national health system
that embraces a health care system and the biomedical research enterprise that underlies it for the
diagnosis and treatment of disease among individuals and a public health system for promoting
health and preventing disease and injury in communities.
She noted that while both of these systems have made extraordinary achievements in the
past decades, there are still walls between them in far too many locales. For example, schools of
Public Health on one side of the street that do not interface with schools of medicine on the
other; clinicians in practice who have no clue about the local health department’s role in disease
prevention; scientists at the bench with new knowledge to apply but no conduit for delivery;
local health officials who collect data but provide no information or knowledge of use to doctors
in practice.
Accordingly, the dichotomy between the public health and the health care systems is
artificial, ineffective, and absolutely obsolete. Therefore, it is time to integrate these two systems
– to create a new state-of-the-art network – a health system - that takes full advantage of the
extraordinary opportunities 21st Century science and technology afford us.
Dr. Gerberding envisions this new health system as a highly connected network in the
truest sense of the word. A network of people, scientists, clinicians, facilities, organizations,
institutions, and communities and nations with the shared primary goal of ensuring that each of
us enjoys the best possible quality and quantity of life.
Specifically, she noted how the recent experience with SARS has taught us the value of a
comprehensive global health network to address threats to our health - whether they are
intentional terrorist threats, emerging infections such as SARS, WNV, monkeypox, or the
epidemic threats of tobacco and obesity. We live in a global world but it is a small world.
Protecting the health and safety of people in this small world requires that our health
system be highly cross-linked. But certain links that involve you as physicians and scientists
must be especially strong if we are to be successful:
The first strong link: Physician or scientist to local health officials – a conduit to the
community. This might include, for example, the astute clinician who recognizes a new illness
or syndrome and engages local health officials.
Second Strong link: Physician or scientist and real-time learning resources, for example,
just in time information; handheld data; computer searches – at the bedside just in time to make
the right decision or “Just in Case” information that permits advanced appropriate preparation.
Notably, Dr. Gerberding indicated that one of the strongest links of all is the stethoscope,
since it is one of our last remaining personal tools – the link in the health system network that
connects us to our patients. Indeed, using the stethoscope means that the physician and patient
have to be present together, there is a laying on of hands, and most importantly, the physician has
to listen, not just to the patient’s heart sounds, but to the patient’s heart.
As concluded by Dr. Gerberding: “Science and technology have evolved enormously –
we can do more to diagnose disease, save lives and mitigate suffering than we ever dreamed
possible, but what the patient actually wants and needs have changed far less. The truth is, most
patients are far more concerned about caring than they are about curing.
In too many corners of our health system, there is no care. The ability to care, not just for,
but about patients is a quality that characterizes the best physicians. Sadly, empathy is so hard to
maintain in this white coat world of science and technology.
For those of you who will be new interns and residents, your empathy for patients will be
increasingly challenged. Your stethoscope is the umbilical cord that tethers you to your patients,
the extension of your ears and your conduit to the patient’s heart.
You are the leaders of the 21st Century health system. As you occupy your place in the
network of health, as physician, scientist, or both, you link your knowledge, your skill, your
empathy and your responsibility with those of countless other dedicated professionals around the
global. I urge you to make strong links and engage your colleagues in public health, research,
and the clinical frontlines. As the newest credentialed members of our nation’s health system, I
thank you - for I know our future is in excellent hands”.
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Graduates listed below are our 2003 graduates for the School of Medicine.
MASTER OF SCIENCE
Betty Dusadee Bhudhikanok
Epidemiology
Phillip Ming-Da Cheng
Biomedical Informatics
Sarah Pei-Win Chu
Epidemiology
Bahareh Ebrahimzadeh
Epidemiology
Todd Archibald Ferris
Biomedical Informatics
Linette M. Fung
Gregory Mathew Garrison, M.D.
Biomedical Informatics
Jason Robert Gotlib
Epidemiology
Justin Vogel Graham
Biomedical Informatics
Michelle Lynn Green
Biomedical Informatics
Peter William Groeneveld, M.D.
Health Services Research
Michelle Adrienne Hladunewich
Molecular and Cellular Physiology
Jean Marie Gaare
Epidemiology
Preety Kalra
Epidemiology
Esther Jean Hyung Lee
Epidemiology
Rosy Lee
Molecular and Cellular Physiology
Jaspreet Kaur Loyal
Epidemiology
Crystal Marie Luetters
Epidemiology
Irene Wai Yan Ma
Epidemiology
Uma Maheswari Mohanasundaram
Epidemiology
Shawn Jason Rangel
Epidemiology
Epidemiology
Stella Mai Huang
Epidemiology
Farzad Soleimani
Health Services Research
Christopher David Sundberg
Microbiology and Immunology
Isabelle Kamga Tchamaha
Epidemiology
Rohini Vij
Health Services Research
Ashley Wysong
Epidemiology
Hsin-Yu Yang
Epidemiology and Statistics
Hoi-Yan Yiu
Epidemiology
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
Shaad Mohiuddin Ahmad
Developmental Biology
Identification and Characterization of Targets
of the Sex Determination Hierarchy in
Drosophila Melanogaster
Susanne Elizabeth Ahmari
Molecular and Cellular Physiology
Synapse Formation in the Hippocampus
Arash Alizadeh
Biophysics
Genome-scale Characterization of Normal and
Pathological Gene Expression Programs in
Immune Cells
Steven Paul Bennett
Biochemistry
Structure and Visualization of Functional
Motifs
Jonathan Adam Bernstein
Genetics
Global Analysis of mRNA Decay in E. coli
Using cDNA Microarrays
Timothy Robert Brazelton
Molecular Pharmacology
Plasticity in Bone Marrow-Derived Cells
Mathew William Brock
Neurosciences
Selective Open-Channel Block of KV1
Carol Hsen Fae Cheng Cain
Biomedical Informatics
Representing and Reasoning about
ContextuallyChanging Organizational
Behavior Using Simulation Models of Medical
Work
Michelle Whirl Carrillo
Biophysics
A Knowledge-Based System for
MacromolecularModel Building and
Evaluation
Katie Suzanne Carroll
Biochemistry
Molecular Cooperation in Mannose 6-
Phosphate Receptor Transport
Helen Hyonhee Cha
Developmental Biology
The Mouse Tail Kinks Locus Encodes
Halfback, a Novel Protein Required During
Somitogenesis
Rodolfo Jose Chaparro
Immunology
Etiology of Autoimmune Diseases: A Study of
Nonimmune Components in
AutoimmuneDiabetes
Swaine Lin Chen
Developmental Biology
Potassium Channels by S-Nitrosodithiothreitol
(SNDTT)
Gregory Mitsuo Chin
Developmental Biology
Preservation of Genomic Integrity in the
Nematode C. elegans
Nam Kyoung Cho
Biochemistry
Developmental Control of Blood Cell
Migration by the Drosophila VEGF Pathway
and its Implications for Blood Vessel Evolution
Raymond Cho
Genetics
The Application of High-Density
Oligonucleotide Arrays Toward the
Interrogation of Biological systems on a
Genome Scale
Julie Lynne Christensen
Immunology
Mechanisms and Mediators of Hematopoietic
Stem Cell Fate
Eleanor Suchada Click
Genetics
Genetic Analysis of the Small GTP-binding
Protein ARF1 in the Yeast Saccharomyces
Cerevisiae
Lara Shayne Collier
Cancer Biology
Characterization of Genes Involves in
Hedgehog Signal Transduction
Lisa Gabrielle Defazio
Biochemistry
Role of DNA-dependent Protein Kinase in
Nonhomologous End-joining
Jason James DeVoss
Immunology
The Role of Classical Allergy Related Genes in
the Pathogenesis of Experimental Autoimmune
Encephalomyelitis, an Animal Model for
Multiple Sclerosis
Jonathan Matson Dugan
Biomedical Informatics
Using Surface Envelopes in 3D Modeling
Maitreya Jnana Dunham
Genetics
Genomic Analysis of Experimental Evolution
in S. cerevisiae
Jimmy Thomas Efird
Epidemiology
Epidemiologic Issues in Squamous Cell Skin
Leveraging the Caulobacter Crescentus
GenomeSequence
Robin Demetria Gantzos
Molecular Pharmacology
Rflat2 Co-Activates Rantes
Transcription:Building the Rantes Promoter
Enhanceosome
Paula A. Giardini
Cancer Biology
Force Generation by Actin Comet Tails:
Physical Influence of the Moving Object and
its Surroundings
Jeffrey Louis Goldberg
Neurosciences
Axon Growth and Regeneration in the Central
Nervous System
Scarlett Su-Chia Lin Gomez
Epidemiology
Methodologic Issues Regarding Race,
Ethnicity,and Birthplace in Epidemiologic
Research:Focus on Asia
Amy Carina Groth
Cancer Biology
Phage Integrases and Site-Specific Integration
in Drosophila
Pedro Jose Adolfo Gutierrez
Cancer Biology
Genomic Instability Induced by Mutations in
Saccharomyces Cerevisiae DNA Polymerase
Alpha
James Joseph Havranek
Biophysics
Introducing Specificity into Protein Design
Kaede Hinata
Cancer Biology
The Role of NF-kappaB in the Growth and
Death of the Epithelium
Dean Yuin Hung
Genetics
Regulatory Genes Involved in Caulobacter
Cell Cycle Progression
Lesley Ann Jar vis
Cancer Biology
Inhibition of FGF Signaling Pathways by
Mouse Sprouty Proteins
Eric Mabus Jorgenson
Genetics
Genetic Analysis of Human Quantitative Traits
Brett Kian Kaiser
Cancer Biology
Cancer, Primary Adult-onset Brain Cancer,
and Parkinson's Disease
Katrin Karbstein
Biochemistry
Dissection of Conformational Changes in the
Tetrahymena Group I Ribozyme and
Selfsplicing Reactions
Theresa Helen McCarthy Keegan
Epidemiology
Bone Density, Falls and Fractures
Julie Ann Kerns
Genetics
Genetics of Pigmentation in the Domestic Dog
Charlene Yukimi Kon
Developmental Biology
Characterization of the Drosophila Homolog
of p66, a Protein Associcated with the NURD
Chromatin Remodeling Complex
Stacie Lambert
Immunology
Mechanisms of TCR Vaccine Induced
Protection in a Murine T cell Lymphoma
Model
Brie Ann Linkenhoker
Neurosciences
Neural Plasticity in the Adult Barn Owl
Auditory Localization System
Barry L. Lubarsky
Biochemistry
The Essential Role of Apical Membrane
Regulation and Maintenance During
Expansive Growth of Drosophila Trachael
Tubes
Susan Elizabeth McCollum
Genetics
DNA Methylation in the Bacteria Caulobacter
Crescentus
Thanyaphong Na Nakorn
Cancer Biology
Myeloid Progenitors in Normal and Malignant
Hematopoiesis
Ingrid Andrea Kathryn Louise
Oakley-Girvan
Epidemiology
Correlates of Prostate Cancer Incidence and
Survival
Eric Chace Olivares
Genetics
Phage Integrases for Gene Therapy: From
Concept to Applications
Regulation of the Centrosome and DNA
Replication Cycles by the Human CDC 14A
and B Phosphatases
David Seungwon Paik
Biomedical Informatics
Computer Aided Interpretation of Medical
Images
Omar David Perez
Molecular Pharmacology
Single Cell Analysis of Multiple Intracellular
Processes: ICAM-2/LFA-1 Interactions as
Functional Adhesion Molecules of the
Immunological Synapse
Katherine Barnett Peters
Cancer Biology
Mechanism of Tirapazamine Under Hypoxic
Conditions
Rita Ashok Popat
Epidemiology
Reproductive History and Pharmacological
Agents as Risk Factors for Amyotrophic
Lateral Sclerosis and Parkinson’s Disease
Darrell Michael Porcello
Neurosciences
Functional Relationships Between Ion
Channels and Intrathalamic Rhythmicity:
Transgenic Animals and Pharmacology
Thomas J. Purcell
Biochemistry
Single Molecule Studies of Myosin V
Jason Lee Pyle
Molecular and Cellular Physiology
Physiological and Molecular Characterization
of a Mammalian Central Nerve Terminal
Xiaoli Qin
Microbiology and Immunology
Translational Control During Mitosis in
Mammalian Cells
Arun Radhakrishnan
Biophysics
Condensed Complexes and the Chemical
Activity of Cholesterol in Membranes
Soumya Raychaudhuri
Biomedical Informatics
Using Text to Enhance the Interpretation of
Large Multi-Dimensional Data Sets
Kirthi Reddy
Developmental Biology
HIM-17 and Meiotic Recombination in C.
elegans
Julie D.R. Reimann
Clare Risa Ozawa
Neurosciences
VEGF Expression by Muscle: Pro-Angiogenic
Effects on the Target and the Source
Christopher Ryan Sclimenti
Cancer Biology
Novel Approaches for Long-term Gene
George Christopher Scott
Biomedical Informatics
Using Decision Models to Automate and
Individualize Interactive Decision Support for
Patients
Colleen Margaret Sheridan
Immunology
Multiple Kinase Regulation of the Nuclear
Factor of Activated T Cells
Amit Pal Singh
Biomedical Informatics
Computational Models for Protein Structure
Analysis and Protein-Ligand Binding
Kryn Stankunas
Developmental Biology
Conditional Protein Alleles in Mice Using
Chemical Inducers of Dimerization
Stephanie Marie Stoll
Genetics
Stability of Transgene Expression In Vivo:
Extrachromosomal vs. Integration
Joshua Michael Stuart
Biomedical Informatics
Predicting Gene Function Based on DNA
Microarray Data from Multiple Species
Biophysics
The Role of the Newly Identified Early Mitotic
Inhibitor, Emi1, in Cell Cycle Regulation and
the Early Embryo
Cenk Sumen
Microbiology and Immunology
T Cell Activation at the Immunological
Synapse
Jean Yuh Tang
Biophysics
Cellular Responses to UV: Role of the DNA
Binding Protein DDB and Microarray Analysis
of Skin Cancer
Olga G. Troyanskaya
Biomedical Informatics
Improving the Specificity of Biological Signal
Detection from Microarray Data
Marija Vrljic
Biophysics
Translational Diffusion of Single MHC
Proteins in Plasma Membrane
John Wang
Developmental Biology
Global Analysis of Gene Expression Patterns
in the Dauer Larvae of Caenorhabditis elegans
Kristina Nicole Woods
Biophysics
The Study of Low Frequency Collective
Motions in the Far-Infrared
DOCTOR OF MEDICINE
Susanne Elizabeth Ahmari
New York Presbyterian Hospital - Columbia
New York, NY • Psychiatry
Jon Matthew Aldrich
University of California San Francisco
Medical Center
San Francisco, CA • General Surgery
Arash Alizadeh
Principal Investigator, Fellow
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, CA • Department of
Microbiology & Immunology
Jennifer Marie Babik
University of California San Francisco
Medical Center
San Francisco, CA • Internal Medicine
Leah Allison Bartsch
Children’s Hospital Boston
Boston, MA • Pediatrics
Sarah Ann Beckman
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, CA • Internal Medicine
Eliza Gaenger Bennitt
Stanford Hospital and Clinics
Stanford, CA • Internal Medicine
Kendra Gail Bergstrom
Clinical Research Fellow
New York University
New York, NY • Department of Dermatology
Jonathan Adam Bernstein
Stanford Hospital and Clinics
Stanford, CA • Pediatrics
Meredith Jewel Barad
Santa Clara Valley Medical Center
San Jose, CA • Medicine - Preliminary
Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Neurology
Jennifer Connolly Boldrick
Santa Clara Valley Medical Center
San Jose, CA • Medicine – Preliminary
Stanford Hospital and Clinics
Stanford, CA • Dermatology
Marcia Verenice Casas
University of California San Francisco
Medical Center – Fresno
Fresno, CA • Transitional
Einstein/Jacobi Medical Center
New York, NY • Emergency Medicine
Gabriel Chamie
University of California San Francisco
Medical Center
San Francisco, CA • Internal Medicine
Department of Medicine Allen B. Barbour
Award for Excellence in Internal Medicine
Daniel Matthew Chavira
Harbor - University of California
Los Angeles Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA • Emergency Medicine
Chloe MuyChou Chhor
New York University School of Medicine
New York, NY • Medicine – Preliminary
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, CA • Diagnostic Radiology
Annie Chiu
White Memorial Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA • Medicine – Preliminary
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, GA • Dermatology
Cheryl Renee Clark
Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Boston, MA • Internal Medicine
Eleanor Suchada Click
University of Washington Affiliated Hospitals
Seattle, WA • Pediatrics
Demetrius Leutrel Dicks
Master’s Program in Clinical Research
The Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN • Department of Urology &
Graduate School of Medicine
Joshua Clark Eby
Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Boston, MA • Internal Medicine
Megan Leigh Fix
Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Boston, MA • Emergency Medicine
Lauren Allegra Beslow
Children’s Hospital – Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA • Pediatrics - Preliminary
CHOP. Pediatric Neurology
Joaquin Jesus Garcia
University of California San Francisco
Medical Center
San Francisco, CA • Pathology
Jeffrey Louis Goldberg
Santa Clara Valley Medical Center
San Jose, CA • Transitional
Sanaz Hariri
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA • Harvard Combined
Orthopaedics
Susanne Pelley Martin Herz
University of Washington Affiliated Hospitals
Seattle, WA • Pediatrics
Yoon Mark Hong
Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Boston, MA • Urology
Kurt Huang
Co-Founder
BitPass, Inc.
Palo Alto, CA
Carl Hurt
Stanford Hospital and Clinics
Stanford, CA • Internal Medicine
Vivek Jain
University of California San Francisco
Medical Center
San Francisco, CA • Internal Medicine
Lesley Ann Jar vis
Alameda County Medical Center
Oakland, CA • Transitional
Jennifer Lynne Johnsen
Women’s Health Coordinator & Independent
Patient Advocate, Atlanta, GA
Chauncey Tallaferro Jones
University of Maryland Medical Center
Baltimore, MD • Medicine – Preliminary
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, MD • Anesthesiology
Joel David Kochanski
Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital/University
of Chicago
Chicago, IL • Transitional
University of Chicago Hospitals
Chicago, IL • Radiation Oncology
Kimberly J. Lee
University of California Los Angeles Medical
Center
Carlos Alberto Galvan
Graduate School
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Ft. Worth, TX
Los Angeles, CA • Otolaryngology
Una Jeannie Lee
Medical College of Georgia
Augusta, GA • Urology
Eric Yukai Lin
Santa Clara Valley Medical Center
San Jose, CA • Transitional
University of California San Francisco
Medical Center
San Francisco, CA • Anesthesiology
Aravind Mani
University of California Los Angeles Medical
Center
Los Angeles, CA • Internal Medicine
Michelle Nguyen Mariano
St. Mary’s Medical Center
San Francisco, CA • Medicine – Preliminary
University of California San Diego
San Diego, CA • Radiology
Department of Radiology Norman Blank,
M.D. Award
Feyza Essam Marouf
New York Presbyterian Hospital – Cornell –
Payne Whitney Clinic
New York, NY • Psychiatry
Roger Hungkai Mar-Tang
University of California Davis Medical Center
Sacramento, CA • Internal Medicine
George Robert Matcuk
VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
Los Angeles, CA • Medicine – Preliminary
UCLA/WLA
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA • Diagnostic Radiology
Jonathan Alexander Mathy
Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Boston, MA • Surgery – Plastic Surgery
Brooke Nicole Maylie
Kaiser Permanente – Santa Clara
Santa Clara, CA • Medicine – Preliminary
Preventive Medicine
Kristine Irene McCoy
Sutter Medical Center
Santa Rosa, CA • Family Practice
Erica Marie Metz
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, CA • Medicine – Primary
Carmen Nereida Morales
Harbor - University of California
Los Angeles Medical Center, Family Practice
Wesley Holbrook Neal
University of Washington Affiliated Hospitals
Seattle, WA • Internal Medicine
Rebecca Suzanne Newton
Stanford Hospital and Clinics
Stanford, CA • Psychiatry
Eddy Vu Nguyen
Santa Clara Valley Medical Center
San Jose, CA • Transitional
University of California Los Angeles Medical
Center
Los Angeles, CA • Ophthalmology
Josephine Cam-Van Nguyen
National Naval Medical Center
Bethesda, MD • Transitional One-Year
Internship
U.S. Navy • Tour as Flight Surgeon
David Allen Nix
Stanford Hospital and Clinics
Stanford, CA • Emergency Medicine
Matthew David Njaa
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC • Anesthesiology
Joseph Wylie Norman
University of Michigan Hospitals
Ann Arbor, MI • Internal Medicine
Shan Pai
Santa Clara Valley Medical Center
San Jose, CA • Transitional
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, CA • Dermatology
Brett James Pariseau
University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics
Madison, WI • Plastic Surgery
Irene Hee-Yon Park
Stanford Hospital and Clinics
Stanford, CA • Pediatrics
Leticia Pelayo
Stanford Hospital and Clinics
Stanford, CA • Pediatrics
Peter Donald Peng
Stanford Hospital and Clinics
Stanford, CA • General Surgery
Katherine Barnett Peters
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Rachel Patricia Mory
Master’s Program in Public Health
University of California Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
Baltimore, MD • Medicine – Preliminary
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, MD • Neurology
Svetlana Alekseyevna Pilyugina
Santa Clara Valley Medical Center
San Jose, CA • Transitional
Stanford Hospital and Clinics
Stanford, CA • Ophthalmology
Elizabeth Carol Powers
Oregon Health and Science University
Portland, OR • Family Practice
Julie D.R. Reimann
Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Boston, MA • Pathology
Liliana Reynoso
Kaiser Permanente – Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA • Obstetrics-Gynecology
Christopher Campbell Robinson
St. Mary’s Medical Center
San Francisco, CA • Medicine – Preliminary
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA • Ophthalmology
Timothy Charles Rodwell
Stanford Hospital and Clinics
Stanford, CA • Medicine - Preliminary
Elizabeth Erin Rogers
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, CA • Pediatrics
Richard Rubio
Hospital of St. Raphael
New Haven, CT • Transitional
New York University School of Medicine
New York, NY • Anesthesiology
Gordon Tadashi Sakamoto
Stanford Hospital and Clinics
Stanford, CA • Neurological Surgery
Christopher Timothy Shen
New Enterprise Associates
Baltimore, MD
William Scott Shin
Yale-New Haven Hospital
New Haven, CT • Internal Medicine
Lynette Marie Sholl
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA • Medicine – Preliminary
Matthew S. Siegel
Rhode Island Hospital – Brown University
Providence, RI • Pediatrics – Psychiatry –
Child Psychiatry
Matthew Neil Simmons
Meetpaul Singh
Graduate School of Business
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Noemi C. Steiner
Contra Costa County Regional Medical
Center
Martinez, CA Family Medicine
Naiyi Sun
Santa Clara Valley Medical Center
San Jose, CA • Transitional
Stanford Hospital and Clinics
Stanford, CA • Anesthesiology
Jean Yuh Tang
Santa Clara Valley Medical Center
San Jose, CA • Transitional
Stanford Hospital and Clinics
Stanford, CA • Dermatology
Cristina Tarango
Yale-New Haven Hospital
New Haven, CT • Pediatrics
Mylin Ann Torres
Alameda County Medical Center
Oakland, CA • Transitional
University of Texas MD Anderson
Houston, TX • Radiation Oncology
Kavita Kishor Trivedi
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, CA • Internal Medicine
Rafael Vargas
Southern Illinois University School of
Medicine & Affiliated Hospitals
Springfield, IL • Diagnostic Radiology
Department of Radiology Norman Blank,
M.D. Award
Gerald Jeh Wang
New York Presbyterian Hospital – Cornell
New York, NY • Urology
Adam Paul Carter Warren
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
UCSF, Department of Orthopaedics
Melanie Marie Watkins
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, CA • Obstetrics-Gynecology
Chou Yang
University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, TX • Anesthesiology
The Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH • Urology
Dale Jeremy Yeatts
Harbor - University of California
Los Angeles Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA • Emergency Medicine
Cory Chi-Hong Yeh
Harvard Hospital
Boston, MA • Otolaryngology
Chen Ming Yu
Graduate School of Business
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
Grace Chen Yu
San Jose Medical Center
San Jose, CA • Family Practice